We ♥ web applications!

Mobalean is lead by Henri Servomaa, the original founder and mobile developer.
At Mobalean we strive to develop services which are loved by our clients and users.
By working in an agile manner, quickly adapting to changing requirements,
we can deliver quickly and often.

Henri Servomaa

Hailing from Finland, Henri has a long history with computers and the internet.
With a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he has worked
in Japan as Software Developer and System Admin since 2001. In 2005, he joined a
company to develop mobile sites for the Japanese market and has been involved in mobile ever since.

Contractors

Cleve Lendon is a Canadian engineer who has been contracting for Mobalean. He came to Tokyo in 1994, and has lived here ever since.
He has broad experience as a software developer, which includes development of mainframe software,
Internet applications and mobile apps (Android and iOS).
He is especially skilled at writing Java applications (vd. Simredo 4, Grafikilo 15).
When not programming, Cleve enjoys improv acting and studying languages, such as Latin and Esperanto.

Mobalean Alumni

Paul McMahon and Michael Reinsch were co-founders of Mobalean. They have moved to Doorkeeper KK, a company they established in 2013. Both are now actively developing the doorkeeper platform.

Web Development

Our strength is crafting web services for both Japanese and international markets.
We bring our technical and cultural experience to help you adapt your ideas into successful products.

We develop with Ruby on Rails and use the best agile practices and tools,
such as test driven development and continuous integration to achieve quality.

Japanese Mobile Consulting

We are the leading provider of technical expertise about the Japanese mobile web. Mobalean started when the smartphones were just appearing on the market.
Our Keitai Web Technology Guide
is a quick starting point for learning about the initial challenges of Japanese mobile development. Although the technology stacks have changed since the proliferation of iOS and Android, some of the idiosyncrasies remain. Most notably, the Japanese market is still very much dominated by the big three carriers: DoCoMo, au and Softbank.
Developers can find more technical details in our Keitai-Dev Wiki.

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emobile wireless Internet access with Linux

emobile has a nice offer here in Japan: a wireless 7.2mbps Internet connection for a bit under 6,000yen a month. We are using the D02HW, a USB HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G technology) modem, but the following probably also applies to some of their other devices.

To get it to run under Linux, using a modern distribution such as Mandriva, Ubuntu or Slackware, not much configuration is needed. When the device is plugged in, it should be recognized automatically and two serial devices, /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 are created.

The easiest method to get an Internet connection up and running is to use wvdial (usually part of your distribution). The configuration is relatively easy, you only need to edit /etc/wvdial.conf (as root) and add the following section: